bilges

How To Use bilges In A Sentence

• I filled the bilges with diesel and poured gas from the outboard around, and cracked off the regulator on the butane gas tank for the stove. TROPIC OF NIGHT
• Gallons of sea water had rushed into the cabin and were now swilling about in the bilges.
• He overlooks the damage caused by the relatively small amounts of oil discharged when ships empty their bilges at sea, particularly in the North-West Atlantic.
• It's the same in the bilges and engine room, the chain locker, the staterooms, bridge and captain's quarters, just mounds of slimy, grey-green mud.
• They aren't just cleaning bilges and swabbing decks.
• But ripping yarns of undersea adventure failed to describe stinking bilges and hideous, overflowing buckets of garbage or worse.
• The cause of Sunday's fire was traced to an electrical fault in the bilges of the vessel.
• The Mission has made do with an acting ambassador, flashing a clear message that for all the U.S. "engagement," the chronic need to clean the bilges of the U.N. ranks low among Washington's priorities. Paging Ambassador Susan Rice
• A common practice is the illegal cleaning of bilges and holding tanks at sea. The Great Penguin Rescue
• Waste from the ship's bilges is pumped into holding tanks, then run through separators to remove water from the oil.